{"id":633411,"date":"2024-09-04T16:54:29","date_gmt":"2024-09-04T13:54:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/ilya-sutskevers-startup-safe-superintelligence-raises-1b\/"},"modified":"2024-09-04T16:54:29","modified_gmt":"2024-09-04T13:54:29","slug":"ilya-sutskevers-startup-safe-superintelligence-raises-1b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/ilya-sutskevers-startup-safe-superintelligence-raises-1b\/","title":{"rendered":"#Ilya Sutskever&#8217;s startup, Safe Superintelligence, raises $1B"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/ssi.inc\/\">Safe Superintelligence (SSI)<\/a>, the AI startup co-founded by former OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, has raised over $1 billion in capital from investors including NFDG (an investment partnership run by Nat Friedman and SSI CEO Daniel Gross), a16z, Sequoia, DST Global and SV Angel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">SSI told <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/technology\/artificial-intelligence\/openai-co-founder-sutskevers-new-safety-focused-ai-startup-ssi-raises-1-billion-2024-09-04\/#:~:text=SAN%20FRANCISCO%2FNEW%20YORK%2C%20Sept,capabilities%2C%20company%20executives%20told%20Reuters.\">Reuters<\/a> that it plans to use the tranche to acquire computing power and hire talent, with a focus on building a team of researchers and engineers split between Palo Alto and Tel Aviv. As to what exactly they\u2019ll research (and who they might partner with), SSI isn\u2019t saying quite yet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Reuters, citing a source familiar, says that the new funding values SSI at $5 billion. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">SSI is building a straight shot to safe superintelligence.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve raised $1B from NFDG, a16z, Sequoia, DST Global, and SV Angel.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re hiring: <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DmFWnrc1Kr\">https:\/\/t.co\/DmFWnrc1Kr<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 SSI Inc. (@ssi) <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ssi\/status\/1831325643226890379?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 4, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sutskever, who\u2019s lead scientist at SSI, co-launched the company earlier this year with Friedman and Daniel Levy, another ex-OpenAI researcher. Prior to SSI, Sutskever headed the now-dismantled Superalignment team at OpenAI, which focused on <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/general\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"General\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">general<\/a> AI safety research. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sutskever quietly departed OpenAI months after a highly-publicized fallout between him, several former OpenAI board members and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman over what Sutskever has referred to as a \u201cbreakdown in communications.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. Follow us on\u00a0<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/publications\/CAAqBwgKMN63nwsw68G3Aw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Google News<\/a><\/span>\u00a0too, click on the star and choose us from your favorites.<\/span><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>If you want to read more like this article, you can visit our <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/technology\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Technology<\/a><\/span> category.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2024\/09\/04\/ilya-sutskevers-startup-safe-super-intelligence-raises-1b\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Safe Superintelligence (SSI), the AI startup co-founded by former OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, has raised over $1 billion in capital from investors including NFDG (an investment partnership run by Nat Friedman and SSI CEO Daniel Gross), a16z, Sequoia, DST Global and SV Angel. SSI told Reuters that it plans to use the tranche to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":633412,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/in-brief-ai-v4.jpg?resize=1200,675","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[77337,75719,151633,74839,147146,151634,151418,151635,151636,99936,70917,151637],"class_list":["post-633411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-ai","tag-funding","tag-agi","tag-fundraising","tag-generative-ai","tag-ilya-sutskever","tag-in-brief","tag-safe-super-intelligence","tag-ssi","tag-startup","tag-startups","tag-superalignemnt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=633411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633411\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/633412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=633411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=633411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=633411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}